Mystery continues over missing actress Laila Khan

IndiaTimes

July 05, 2012

Mumbai/Jammu: Where is fringe Bollywood actress Laila Khan? The mystery continues after her stepfather and suspected militant Parvez Iqbal Tak told the Jammu and Kashmir Police that she and four of her family members were killed but her father Nadir Shah Patel challenged the contention in Mumbai Thursday.

Tak, a suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba extremist nabbed in Jammu and Kashmir June 21, made the revelation in police custody that Laila Khan - missing since February 2011 - had been killed along with four other members of her family and their bodies had been disposed of somewhere near Mumbai.Laila's father Patel questioned Tak's contention and accused him of attempting to defraud him in a realty matter in Mumbai.Speaking to a private news channel in Mumbai, Patel said he did not "believe" Tak's claim that Laila, her mother Saleena Begum, siblings Zara, Imran, cousin Reshma and a domestic help were killed and their bodies disposed of somewhere around Mumbai in February 2011.Giving vital leads in a case that has long confounded investigators, Tak told the Jammu and Kashmir Police that five-six people were involved in the killing of Laila and her family.They were shot dead and buried in an isolated place near Mumbai, Tak is believed to have told interrogators in Jammu and Kashmir."Initially after his arrest, Tak was trying to mislead police. But later, when the Mumbai police too joined the investigations, Tak told us that five to six characters were involved in wiping out Laila Khan and four members of her family," Jammu and Kashmir's Deputy Inspector General of Police Gareeb Das told IANS in Jammu.Tak married Laila's mother Saleema Begum after she divorced Patel.Even as Mumbai police is expected to take Tak's custody from Kishtwar, a separate kidnapping case was lodged against the accused in Mumbai's Oshiwara Police Station two days ago.